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Who Gets Full Ride Scholarships?

Who gets full ride scholarships? Most parents want to know this as wouldn’t we all love not to have to pay for college? In answering this question, the key word is “Top“. Before we go any further in exploring this though, we need to address “need based” scholarships as they Read more…

By Wendy Nelson, 5 years5 years ago
Applying to Colleges

Full Tuition Merit Scholarship – A Success Story

I’d like to share a full tuition merit scholarship success story today. A mother recently emailed me to let me know about her daughter winning a great full tuition scholarship for Fall of 2018. I was thrilled to hear her story and asked if I could share it here. This Read more…

By Wendy Nelson, 5 years5 years ago
Paying for College

1,225 Major Merit Scholarships – Updated List

This post was published in July of 2016. The latest version of the Full Scholarship List, version 7.1 was published 3-13-2019 and contains more scholarships than all the previous versions. It is still available through the links below. The Full Scholarship List, with 1,225 major merit scholarships, is newly updated as Read more…

By Wendy Nelson, 7 years4 years ago
Paying for College

The Updated Full Scholarship List is Out!

This post was first published in February 2015. If you are reading it after that, the Full Scholarship List has grown much larger. The latest version, 7.1, was published 3-13-2019 and contains over 1,180 scholarships. You can still purchase the list through the links below. Yesterday, I published an updated Read more…

By Wendy Nelson, 8 years4 years ago
Paying for College

Competing for Full-Ride Scholarships

Updated 3/2/2019 – Updates in blue. The majority of full-ride scholarships and full-tuition scholarships offered directly by colleges are competitive, meaning they aren’t automatically offered to all students meeting certain GPA and ACT/SAT criteria.  On my Full Scholarship List, almost 880 of the current 1164 school-sponsored full tuition and full Read more…

By Wendy Nelson, 9 years4 years ago
Paying for College

Do National Merit Finalists Get Full-Ride Scholarships?

Last week, I wrote about what ACT or SAT score can earn your student a full-ride scholarship.  This week, I am going to focus on another source of full-ride scholarships – National Merit Finalists.  In my research regarding full-ride scholarships, I have found that there is a growing trend away Read more…

By Wendy Nelson, 9 years9 years ago
Paying for College

What ACT or SAT Score Can Get You a Full-Ride Scholarship?

There are still colleges in the United States that offer full-ride scholarships to attract students with high ACT or SAT scores.  The number of schools offering these scholarships seems to be shrinking over the past several years so it takes some work to find the ones that still do. For Read more…

By Wendy Nelson, 9 years9 years ago
Paying for College

Can My Kid Get a Full-Ride Scholarship?

I was listening to a financial call-in program the other day and the topic of how a lady was going to pay for her kid’s college came up.  She said, “I’m hoping she will get a scholarship.”  That was it.  She had no money saved, the daughter was in high Read more…

By Wendy Nelson, 10 years7 years ago
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